Up next is the hard rocking and angsty "Down Boys" before the slow-burning, sparse and out of this world sounding "You Wear Those Eyes" shifts the musical goal posts yet again before "Running To You" with its new wave meets punk riffage, and the straightforward power pop of "Up And Down" brings the album to a close. ![]() "Getting Through" is a driving rocker which is seemingly possessed with a Devo-ish spirit, while the chugging "Misfit Kid" is charged with pop smarts that would have been comfortably at home on Candy-O. This is followed by the bombastic Stones-que "Gimme Some Slack" before "Don’t Tell Me No," which was issued as the second single from the album, returns again to more familiar Cars territory with its hook-laden melody. “So, I came in with it already written and just recorded it”. “That solo on 'Tough And Go,' I worked on in my hotel room while we worked on other parts” recalls Easton today. The off-kilter rhythmic keyboard stabs and odd time signature changes of "Touch And Go" sees the band going further down this detour before a more Cars of old sounding chorus steers it back to more familiar ground along with a blistering guitar solo by Easton. It was simply the natural progression of the band, along with the type of songs that Ric (Ocasek) was writing at the time.” - The Cars guitarist Elliot Eastonįrom the moment the robotic drum beat and swirling futuristic synth sounds kick offs the title track Panorama on side one, it heralds The Cars in previously unexplored sonic territory. “There was no conscious decision (to write differently for Panorama). The Cars were tapping into the zeitgeist, and Panorama would see Easton’s previously upfront guitar, take a back seat to the keyboard and synthesizer sounds of The Cars’ Greg Hawkes. ![]() Synth pop was in its infancy and would soon come to dominate the early 1980s climate, with bands such as Ultravox, Devo and Gary Numan all leading the charge in experimenting with the new sounds of synthesizers. Also, around the same time as the band began working on the album, there was a change in the sounds on the musical landscape.
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